Month: July 2017

My fiance’s sister recently got engaged and what better way to express your congratulations than by sending a card!

Firstly, I apologize for using a sentiment from the retired So in Love stamp set but I thought it was so pretty I had to use it! The flowers are from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set which I adore. It has so many pretty stamps in it.

I used a Misti tool and masks I cut out from post its to make sure the stamps weren’t overlapping each other. You can use a Stamp-ma-jig as well for this, I just found the Misti very helpful laying out and building up the image.

I used promarkers for colouring in with. You can also use watercolour pencils, other markers or inks. I just happen to have Promarkers from my mother and thought they would work well for this job.

I am no expert colouring with promarkers, what I think helps is trying to imagine how I would like the flowers to look like before colouring, because if I just start colouring I just switch off my brain and it all becomes too random and it rarely ends up well for me! So I had a good idea about how I wanted the roses and leaves to look like and also the forget-me-not’s (or that’s what I turned them into!) and then I started colouring in.

Of course, after almost being done, I mess up my nicely stamped and coloured image. I decided to cut the image out using scissors. It was not possible for me to save it with any framelits 😦
With that said I think placing it on top of the DSP and copper thread makes it looks very nice! I wish I had used more copper thread to make it looking like a birds nest. I think that would have looked very cool, but also more like a spring card. I am very pleased with my card and I hope the receiver enjoys it as well!

I’m in love with the Flower Shop stamp set from Stampin Up, which has been around for some time and proves over and over to be very versatile!

Today I made a card for a colleague who is leaving soon. I like to give the card a few days in advance and not exactly on the last day. I think it’s just nice catching them alone, having a chat, give the card and they can enjoy it until they leave.

This card is very fun to make and there is no pressure of getting everything right. My original idea was layering the coloured flowers straight on top of the black and white ones, but I thought it looked kind of cool letting it peak through.

I coloured the flowers with watercolour pencils and a blender pen. My colouring is far from perfect, but it’s all about having fun! I used the Pansy Punch to punch the flowers out very quick. You can also cut them out with scissors.

The sentiment I white heat embossed on black paper to make it stand out and with all those flowers I thought it needed some green and I decided to go with a green cardbase. I used a white gel pen just to add some white to the center of the flowers, it’s not necessary to do. I also covered the flowers in glitter with a wink of stella, unfortunately this doesn’t show on any of the photos 😦

I put the coloured flowers on with dimensionals and I used scissors to cut the overhanging flower bits off with. Later I decided to add some glossy accent to the center of the flowers and it worked very well.

I’m very happy with the turn out of this card and I will be making more of it for other occasions. ❤ In Fact here a couple of similar cards I made. All ready to get a sentiment attached.

One of my dearest friends recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and I wanted to send her a card to congratulate.

Unfortunately, I find it difficult making baby cards. I always feel I never get them as cute or pretty as I want them to be, so this card took me a long time to make.

To make things more complicated I wanted to try new colour blending techniques. This is my first time using blending tools. I have seen many crafters using blending tools and make it look so easy. I didn’t find it easy at all, but it was a lot of fun! I used a die from the So Detailed framelits to cut out a stencil. The pink and purple was easy to blend, but i had difficulties getting an even blend with the green. I’m sure I just need a lot more practise! But overall I am very pleased with my background, which I also spitzed with some copper glitter. It’s difficult to see in any of the photos but it has a suttle copper shine to it.
I love the sentiment, it says: “ba-by (n) a little bit of heaven sent down to earth”. It’s so adorable!

I coloured the baby body suit straight forward with promarkers and didn’t worry much about shading or anything (as you can see I used the wrong type of ink for alcohol markers. I put the correct type of ink under supplies!). I just wanted to give it some colour to stand out from the background. I thought the safety pin was fun and added an extra element to the card.

Here is the final result after I decided to add some glassy accent to the body suit to finish it off with. All in all, I am very happy with the card. It’s very different from what I have previous made and I hope my friend likes it too!

*I buy distress inks from oysterstamps.co.uk. They often have a good deal where you can buy 4 distress inks for £12. It’s cheaper than amazon and most craft stores. Make sure you check spam filter if you use this company. All my emails from them ended there!

I was cruising around on Amazon the other day as you do every once and a while, just looking at random things. After some time I found this cute little Viking stamp from Avery Elle, now being from Scandinavia I just had to get this stamp! I ordered the stamp immediately and got it with next day delivery!

With a stamp like this, which needs colouring I always stamp on proper colouring paper first before making a card, so I can practice and try out different colours and see what combinations I like the best.

I preferred the ginger Viking, I also like the golden helmet, but it wouldn’t really work with the ginger beard. The grey bearded Viking is kinda cool too. I think the brown Viking is a bit too lumber jack like. And I think I need to work a bit more on the blonde Viking’s beard, maybe add another shade to it.

The background I made by blending distress inks and sprayed some water on it and dapped it off, which gave me an awesome pixelled look. I used a textured stamp around the edge and sprayed a few mists of bronze glimmer mist over it, just to give it a nice finish. The sentiment is embossed using white embossing powder.

To make the card more fun I decided to add some balloons and I also put a layer of glossy accent on my little Viking to make him pop out.

I think the card is brilliant and what is more awesome than getting a Viking for your birthday?!!

This time I thought I would mix & match new and old Stampin’ Up! together.

I used the 5 new in colours (2017-2019) and I used the Balloon Celebration stamp set which is still current. The new in colours are perfect for birthday cards and I hope my parade of them inspires you to make a bunch as well.

On purpose I made each card differently; different backgrounds, types of balloons and attached ribbon differently. Some things remain identical as in where sentiment, balloons and rhinestones are placed.

I love the way the cards look alike but aren’t quite the same. It’s great to have a bunch like this stashed away for any sudden birthdays!

Here are the individual cards nicely spread out so you can have a closer look.

Background bits is definitely my first pick among Stampin’ Up’s host rewards. Here I made two very similar cards with the stamps in two different colours, Marina Mist and Tranquil Tide with a bit of a Moroccan feel to it.

The background is straight forward stamping. I didn’t’t do it very carefully, but it was very easy and looks great. Cards are very quick and fun to make. I like the white border around the stamped background. It just adds a bit more of dimension. The tag and banner I stuck on with dimensionals. the bow can be a bit tricky to tie on the Tranquil Tide card I did add a glue dot just to hold the Burlap ribbon in place.

Cards are from the 27th of June 2017.

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